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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells Suspilne media platform that under US president-elect Donald Trump the war in Ukraine will end quicker, according to Suspilne website.

Trump, who takes office in January, has said he’d seek a quick deal between Kyiv and Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a phone call earlier on Friday, the first direct communication between the leaders in almost two years and discussed the war in Ukraine.

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  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    61·
    3 hours ago

    Let’s not forget that Trump was the first president in history to send weapons to Ukraine. All prior presidents including Obama said it was far to provocative to do so.

    • ProtonFiber@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      2 hours ago

      TLDR: misleading information for people who won’t scroll to read the rest

      @freagle@lemmtgrad.ml: Let’s not forget that Trump was the first president in history to send weapons to Ukraine. All prior presidents including Obama said it was far to provocative to do so.

      Weird choice of words, provocative refers to something that arouses a strong reaction, while escalating means to increase in intensity or scope.

      U.S. officials were concerned that providing Javelins to Ukraine would escalate their conflict with Russia.

      A bit of nitpicking that doesn’t matter til fact-checking the rest of your statement.

      Cotton spokesperson Patrick McCann told PolitiFact that Cotton was referring to Javelins, antiarmor missiles provided by the Trump administration. In 2014, Obama rejected a request by Ukraine for those weapons.

      …

      However, Obama’s White House approved other aid. In total, from 2014 to 2016, the United States committed more than $600 million in security assistance to Ukraine. Under Obama, the federal government started the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which sent other kinds of U.S. military equipment to the country. From federal fiscal years 2016 to 2019, which overlap with Obama and Trump, Congress appropriated $850 million.

      Source

      You’re misleading people, it did send weapons just not the one that was requested at the time.

      Looking at his profile it all makes sense, must be a Trump supporter in hiding wandering Lemmy posts.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 hour ago

        Looking at his profile it all makes sense, must be a Trump supporter in hiding wandering Lemmy posts.

        Anyone to the left of me is secretly to the right of me.

      • Feline [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        2 hours ago

        TLDR: misleading information about misleading information

        it did send weapons just not the one that was requested at the time.

        Read your own source

        Cotton’s “comment is correct in the sense that Obama never approved transfer of lethal weaponry but Trump did,” said Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow in the foreign policy program of the Brookings Institution, a think tank.

        What @Freagle@lemmy.zip said is correct [edit] said wrong user lol

        Looking at his profile it all makes sense, must be a Trump supporter in hiding wandering Lemmy posts.

        Liberal paranoia is getting out of hand. Can’t wait to see what BlueAnon candidate the dems run in 2028